SFFSFF 2021 Package 2

Films screening in Package 2 of the 16th annual Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival in partnership with the Museum of Pop Culture.

Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival

uTransfer

d. Giorgio Miraflor

uTransfer is a new device that allows for certain United States Citizens to transfer their consciousness into a utopia called the New World. Though it is unknown to us as to why, Dean Flores is wildly determined to get to the other side.

It's Okay

d. Justin Giddings & Ryan Welsh

In this Black Mirror-esque tale, a couple revisit key moments of their past, only for their memories to take an unexpected turn.

Solution for Sadness

d. Marc Martínez Jordán and Tuixén Benet

A mysterious package offers a woman a reprieve from her melancholy, only its results are more permanent and pervasive than she realizes.

A Cure for All Things

d. Katherine Chou

Jiawei finds a vial while cleaning out her late mother’s fridge, transforming her into their ancestors and descendants. Ma worries she made a mistake uprooting their lives and leaving everything behind. Mother and daughter cross paths through time to find answers in each other. A Cure for All Things is a story of what we leave out and what we leave behind.

Sunshine Room

d. Nick Lopez

Cutting-edge technology allows a young woman to grow up alongside her beloved Abuela. But on the verge of leaving for college, her financial realities threaten to erase their relationship for good.

Play Nice

d. Samual Dawes

Mel makes the most of her free house by getting down to some serious gaming, but is interrupted by her children’s toys when they decide they aren’t getting enough attention. However, she quickly realizes they’re not quite so fun to play with...

The Third Bedroom

d. Frank Roberts

While visiting from out of town, Brooklyn learns before settling down for the night that she has been condemned to the sleepless agony that is crashing on a friend’s couch for a week. Pressing the issue, her friend Sadie explains that the couch is the only available option as the spare bedroom is haunted by the spirit of a cannibalistic pioneer girl who will surely kill and eat Brooklyn if she dares to spend a single night in the third bedroom.

Pipo and Blind Love

d. Hugo Le Gourrierec

In a dezhumanized world where emotions are rationed and measured by a gauge, Pipo, a factory worker falls in love with a woman sitting on a bench. He will try anything to attract her attention and seduce her with his own « language ».

The Other Wayne

d. John-Paul Nickel

"The Other Wayne" is a short comedy about two brothers grappling with a serious subject: Grief. Years ago, Bruce Wayne had a brother who helped him create his iconic crime fighting suit. But why has no one ever heard of this brother? What happened to the other Wayne?

The Adventures of Nebulon Lazerbeam

d. Andrew Boyd

In the space epic “The Adventures of Nebulon Lazerbeam,” a mustache twirling villain wreaks havoc and steals an object of extreme power, threatening the galaxy as we know it. Nebulon Lazerbeam and his mentor are called into action to stop this sinister nemesis from taking over the solar system. But at what cost?